90's school fashions.
wore my red and black checked lumberjack shirt over a black "body" to death. the body was a pain in the arse every time i needed to pee. which is quite often, when you are a 14 year old scrote drinking illicit cider in the park. and the lumberjack shirt made me look like a very butch lezzer. but everyone else in stockport was wearing them, so i did too.

bleached the front two strands of my very dark hair white blonde. why was this ever considered a good look? mine just turned to overprocessed straw. i looked like wurzel gummidge.

drank so much kwiksave economy vodka that i passed out on the gravel and very nearly had to be stomachpumped.

snogged lots of horrible random men because everyone else was pulling left, right and centre.

however, i am pleased that i avoided:

perms
smoking
bullying
stealing
lipstick lesbianism
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 12:18, 8 replies)

for the sake
of this QOTW, did you have to avoid lipstick lesbianism?
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 12:43, closed)

Good lord, did you hang about on Stockport Market?
I managed all those apart from the stealing and bullying...though I didn't consciously do them to fit in as much as it appealed to me at the time :)
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sun 18 Jan 2009, 15:01, closed)

ah well
when it wasn't stockport market, it was coco savannah's at grand central. the shame!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 17:17, closed)

I never went to Coco's
But my reigning memory of going out in Stockport as a teenager was when I was trying to get into Stockport College's SU bar for the friday night "indie" night (circa 1994) with a "modified" student ID.

The bouncer looked at me and said "How old are you?" I replied "Er... s... seventeen".

To which he laughed in my stupid fucking face and threw my card into some bushes.

(But I went back next week and got in)
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:25, closed)

ha
that's hilarious!!! to be fair, you got confused with the lying to be under 16 on the train, and lying to be over 18 in the pubs...

we got booted out of the grand central cinema when my friend jo asked for "two halves" to go and see "hellraiser iii". twat.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 16:48, closed)

Ah bodysuits.
Misty watercolour meeeeeem-reeeeeees........
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 17:58, closed)

Are you sure it was Stockport ...
and not Glossop?

That description brought back all sorts of memories.
( Ghoti Fingers, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 18:05, closed)

definitely stockport
but i did have friends from glossop. maybe they were responsible for starting the lumberjack craze.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 18:55, closed)